Word: peninsulas
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Could anything be more romantic than strolling barefoot at surf's edge with your beloved? Well, yes, according to Marissa Woods, the director of romance at the Las Ventanas al Paraiso resort at the tip of Mexico's Baja Peninsula. She could enhance your romantic tryst by the Sea of Cortez by raking an enormous heart into the sand and perhaps, when you return from the beach, you'll find your bedroom decorated with 1,000 red roses. Woods can order up a white stallion to deliver a wedding ring or strolling classical guitarists to set the mood. She also...
MCCLELLAN to Peninsula...
PERIL An organizer but not a fighter. Sidelined after his Peninsula debacle, he got a second chance at Antietam. He fought to a draw there despite knowing Lee's plans...
...book about suicide terrorism, Dying to Win, says the tactic has historically been used when two conditions are met: first, insurgents feel they are fighting foreign troops in places they regard as their homeland (Osama bin Laden, for example, has railed against U.S. bases in the Arabian Peninsula); and second, when the occupiers come from a different religious background, insurgents are able to paint them as subjugators of their faith and its followers. Those conditions, it turns out, co-exist prominently in the Muslim world today, particularly in the Middle East. --With reporting by Aparisim Ghosh
...colonial times, British steamship passengers knew Aden, at the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula, as a free port on the edge of a vast desert. In late 1967, after four years of civil strife, the moonscape known as Aden and the Protectorate of South Arabia was granted its independence by the British government. In time it became known as the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, or simply South Yemen, to distinguish it from the Yemen Arab Republic to the north. The only Arab country that explicitly calls itself Marxist, South Yemen (pop. 2 million) forged close ties with...